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Archive | May, 2017

Now you can enjoy afternoon tea at the Balmoral Hotel

AFTERNOON TEA at the Balmoral Hotel is a treat not to be missed. Conveniently situated on the Blacks Road, the newly refurbished hotel packs the same punch as our major city centre hotels without the same high prices. Served in the plush, newly renovated lobby bar section of the hotel, afternoon tea is a fabulous mid-day […]

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New health and well-being festival springs up in West Belfast

A number of community organisations in the Upper Springfield area have come together to organise a ground-breaking new health and well-being festival.   Glór na Móna, Upper Springfield Youth Team, Newhill Youth Club and the Frank Cahill Resource Centre have collaborated to produce a packed programme of events.   Féile na gCloigíní Gorma is a […]

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Mother and kids flee after racist attack

A YOUNG mother-of-three has been forced to leave her North Belfast home after it was ransacked in a racist attack. Kourtney O’Riordan returned home to her house on the Cliftonville Road last Friday evening to find windows broken, the television smashed and framed pictures of her children destroyed. ‘Black c**t’ and ‘black w****r’ were daubed […]

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Our Dáire gets superstar treatment

SEVEN-year-old Turf Lodge boy and Everton superfan Dáire Flanagan’s dreams came true at the weekend as he led his beloved Toffees out as they beat Watford 1-0 at Goodison Park. Speaking exclusively to the Andersonstown News, Dáire’s mum Colette said he had lived the celebrity lifestyle – “and loved every minute of it!” Dáire, who […]

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McAllister reflects on Swifts ‘great escape’ season

TO say Sport and Leisure Swifts maintained their league status by the skin of their teeth would be an understatement. In what was a thrilling finale to the season for the neutral, it was a nervous one for the Glen Road Heights outfit whose fate went down to the final game of the season, a […]

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Catney happy to accept Reds’ captaincy

CLIFTONVILLE’S new captain, Ryan Catney admits he is happy to receive the captain’s armband from new manager Barry Gray after the duo met for the first time last Wednesday evening. Gray has wasted no time in laying down the foundations for next season having met with some of his senior players before he was introduced […]

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